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... when I lived in Oz were an old-fashioned Australian hamburger joint, with six kinds of hamburger and a range of toppings, ranging up to bacon and egg, including of course grilled onion, and if you weren't careful beetroot ... and kebab places.

Wendy's always had the chili, but I guess they added some other healthier food choices after I left for Oz, in response to the pressure from Subway, and now Mickey D's trying to follow suit.

But I can't really afford to eat at most fast food places, so once I started boycotting Taco Bell because they would not serve me in the ride in window, the closest I get to fast food is canned soup or canned chili and frozen veggies added to the rice in the rice cooker.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 06:51:33 PM EST
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Interesting, McD & co is often spoken of as cheap by Westerners, which was and still is definitely not true here (I remember the first McDonalds opened was seen as a trendy exclusive place for those with money). So yes the switch to Chinese and gyros (döner kebab) in my student years was also welcome cost-cutting.

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by DoDo on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 07:00:17 PM EST
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The kebabs in Oz would end up being about the same as a Bog Mac, and the better Ozzie burgers a smidgen more ... but since both felt like actual food instead of imitation food, there's no comparing the bang for the buck.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 07:47:51 PM EST
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I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 07:48:16 PM EST
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Oh, and here too the best hamburgers are sold by street vendors (four times the size of what they sell in McD, tastier, healthier, more stuff put into it in greater variation), but I rarely came across these on my routes home.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 07:03:50 PM EST
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... was the meat pie stand in the converted tram near the Queen's Wharf (where the ferry to Stockton Peninsula came in) ... a bad meat pie is a terrible thing, but a very good one is an excellent reason for taking up cycle commuting.

From the description you give of the street vender hamburgers, the traditional Ozzie burger from a traditional fish and chip shop is closer to that than to Mickey D's ... or, as they say in Oz, Macca's.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 15th, 2007 at 07:12:52 PM EST
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